News Updates

News Updates

11/8/2005

• Charles, Camilla Attend California Episcopal Church

  The Rev. Thomas Brindley, rector of St. Columba’s, Inverness, Calif., was surprised and delighted to welcome Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, on All Saints' Sunday.

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• Protecting the Roots

  In all of the controversy over sexuality and doctrine, there is an important distinction being overlooked: the distinction between the “essential” Episcopal Church (the way it is established by its constitution) and the “existential” Episcopal Church (or the Church as we now find it buried in turmoil). (By Hugh Edsall)

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• Mission Impossible

  As an active priest for more than 25 years, I thought that cooking up a mission statement for each parish I served was an onerous task, one done more for the satisfaction of looking good for others, perhaps even the bishop, rather than actually producing something useful. I was wrong. (By Paul E. Gilbert)

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• Arson Damages Arctic Cathedral

  The igloo-shaped Anglican Cathedral of the Arctic, St. Jude’s in Iqaluit on Baffin Island, was severely damaged by fire Nov. 5. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating and arson is suspected, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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• IASCOME Proposal 'Parallels' Windsor Report

  A nine-point “Covenant for Communion in Mission,” developed by the Inter Anglican Standing Commission on Evangelism and Mission does not supplant but complements the proposal for a Communion-wide Anglican covenant contained in the appendices of the Windsor Report, according to the Rev. Canon Gregory Cameron, deputy secretary general of the Anglican Consultative Council and director of ecumenical affairs and studies.

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